Eda Kranakis’ areas of research include: History of Technology, History of European Integration, Export Processing Zones and Intellectual Property. Her current research projects explore aspects of the role of technology in European integration and globalization, focusing on the history of aviation and European airspace as well as on the history of the globalization of production, and the history of patent systems in relation to globalization.
Research Interests: History of Technology, History of European Integration, Export Processing Zones, Intellectual Property.
| Institution: | University of Ottawa |
| Fields of Expertise: | Collective Identity Education and Technology EU Trade and the Single Market Nationalism and Extremism |
| Research groups: | RG ECSA-C Environment,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | kranakis@uOttawa.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French |
| Publications: | Kranakis, E. (2019). A Tale of Two Inventions: Monsanto, Biotechnology, and the Geography of Postmodern Science. Isis, 110(4), 701-725. doi:10.1086/706819 "Peak Oil Theory in Canada's Globe and Mail: A Case Study of the Construction of Ignorance," Scientia Canadensis 37, Nos. 1-2 (2014): 133-189. Awarded the Jarrell Prize by the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, 2015. (with Nil Disco), "Toward a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons," in N. Disco and E. Kranakis, eds., Cosmopolitan Commons: Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders (MIT Press, 2013), pp. 13-53. Eda Kranakis, "The 'Good Miracle': Building a European Airspace Commons, 1919-1939,” in Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis, eds., Cosmopolitan Commons in Europe (MIT Press, 2013) E. Berge and E. Kranakis, eds., Special Feature: Commons Created by Technology: The Radio Spectrum, in International Journal of the Commons 5, No. 1 (2011): 86-129. Eda Kranakis, “Business TRIPS: American corporations and patents head to the global South, 1950-2010,” "European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933," in Alec Badenoch and Andreas Fickers, eds., Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Eda Kranakis, "European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933," in Alec Badenoch and Andreas Fickers, eds., in Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 290-326. "Politics, Business, and European Information Technology Policy from the Treaty of Rome to Unidata, 1958-1975," in Richard Coopey, ed. Information Technology Policy: An International History (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004), pp. 209-246. |
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